2 Polyglots Ranking 9 Languages!!! Which Language is hardest??
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Today 2 Polyglots Ranked 9 Languages With Native Speakers!!
Hope you enjoy it!
BR Julia @juliagulacsi
ID Genesia @genesia.synclaire
ES Mika @miikkita_
FR Emilie @emonboard
UK Jenny @jenrosierosee
KR Jung a
JP Mariko @my.malee95
CN Angie
DE Katharina @kate.goesbackpacking
I'm starting to feel sorry for Julia and Genesia. Did they arrest you in this studio? give us a sign ✊
😂😂
Júlia, if you’re being kept in that studio against your will, blink twice with your left eye 😂
Lol
Yeah how long do they record for in one day, good God
😂😂😂
You know what, Julia and Genesia both got the look and the brain as well. They're just so elegant in their own way.
Ranking languages by difficulty was so difficult 🫠
love from here for julia and genesia ❤
Genesia and Julia both have a nice energy together ❤ 🎉
@@ReiKakariki true
@@guardianrv 💋💋💋🍻🍻🍻
The alphabet in welsh sounds like Voldemort when he speaking with snakes
Welsh sound like the elfs language to me
Lol
@@lxportugal9343the elf language was actually based off of Welsh!
I think all Celtic languages have a unique sound. French and Czech too.
I am welsh lo!
The germany girl was like what i'm doing here
she's too serious 😂
@@haiulay she's too German for them
The German Girl is like Germans usually really are... (also that she forgets about Half of the Alphabet / Sounds / Language is very typical for Germans nowadays... )
Germans do not really know German anymore and they also do not care... (only really important Language in Germany is english, nowadays)
She's is really buetiful,her legs🦵😍,her eyes.So me too
😂😂😂@@darrel122500
I'd argue that Spanish is a lot easier than German based on phomenes. Whereas Spanish e.g. has only 5 vowel phomenes German has 17 and 3 diphthongs. English as a related Germanic language has also a similarity high number of vowel phomenes (which is characteristic for all Germanic languages) so they won't struggle as much as someone speaking an unrelated language, however for learning purposes I'd still think that less variation in phonemes makes learning a lot easier. Overall Spanish has 25 phonemes whereas German has 45
Yes, Spanish is definitely the easiest to learn in that room for english speakers.
Whilst English is somewhat related to German it is really a hybrid of Germanic and Latin based languages and has more Latin and/or French based words than German.
@@aldozilli1293 yeah, however the most commonly used words and everything besides the vocabulary are still Germanic. Though that's besides the point as I was talking about the amount of phonemes, so the distinctive sounds that make up the language. In that regard English is still a typical Germanic language and hence it should be easier for Anglophones to both recognize and replicate the German phomenes than it would be e.g. for a Spaniard who probably wouldn't even hear a recognisable difference between many of them and would have a lot harder time getting used to the amount.
Picture the problems Anglophones have with the German "ch" and then imagine that there are about 20+ of such foreign phonemes a Spanish speaker would have to learn when studying German.
But I find the easier the phonemes are, the quicker people speak in that language, like Japanese and Spanish, people just BLURRR things out 😂😂😂
Girls, you confused tonal languages (Mandarin, Thai, etc.) with graphic accentuation denoting timbre and tonic syllables (French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.)
I‘m pretty sure Genesia was aware of that but just didn’t want to say smth
@@klugscheier1644 yeah she seems very humble
@@harissastrawijaya9581yeah because she seems aware of feeling too nerdy I guess? She’s extremely intelligent to where she might not want to feel like she’s making others feel uncomfortable
Yeah Genesia at least knows how to speak in basic mandarin.
I think they confused "tone" for "stress". Spanish, Portuguese, English, German don't have tones, but they have stress, which is a strong syllable in relation to the other syllables. In Mandarin, Kantonese, Vietnamese and others, they have tones, which is different. Tones refer to a certain way of pronouncing a single syllable, whereas stress refers to the strength of a syllable in relation to the other syllables in the same word. So in Mandarin, Kantonese, Vietnamese and many other tonal languages, they probably also have stress together with tone. In Japanese, there is no tone, but there is stress, even though the Japanese stress seems to be extremely weak in comparison to other languages. As a result, Japanese sounds much more flat, but there is still some stress, like in HAshi versus haSHI - chopsticks versus bridge.
Welsh is a strange language, World Friends should do a whole series on the living Celtic languages (Welsh, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic), or just on Welsh if it's too much trouble finding other Celtic speakers in Korea.
It's not strange. It's not English.
I remember some Scottish people in accent comparison videos, The problem with these languages, most speakers you find are better at English (or French in case of Breton) and it can be hard to find really fluent speakers. Still, that would be a video I look forward to.
I would love if they found Celtic speakers
@@Garo-606Irish?
@internetual7350 As a Breton, I can understand why it is called weird. Many things in Celtic language don't exist in others western european ones. The mutation, the alphabet, the sentence structure (I am not sure for Welsh or Gaelic languages, but for Breton it is true). Even the vocabulary is different on many points, I can say confidently that French is way closer to German than it is to Breton, despite being so close geographically (I won't talk about how English is closer to French, because it is a well known fact that French language had a huge influence over English).
I understand people outside of our region, or even locals without a clue about our language, would find it strange, because for a French native, it's by far much easier to learn German, English or Spannish. In the weird ones, I would also put Hungarian/Finnish and Basque, really close (geographically) to those Europeans but really different and hard to learn.
I love how good Júlia is at everything, of course everyone there is very good but Júlia for me is the strong point of the video, as a learner of a non-romanized language I I can say that Júlia is incredible at learning languages like this
What ia the meaning of the blue star next to your name ?
@@Jil-u71 Ah, that's why I'm a supporting member of the channel :)
@@Maat396 I did not understand , explain more clearly
@@Jil-u71 There is a button called "become a member" and then you pay monthly to support the channel
@@Jil-u71 ele se inscreveu como membro no canal
I can't believe the polyglots are yapping about how spanish and german have "tones", they have accent marks and syllable stress like almost every other european language but those are not tones like in chinese 😅
Are they speaking about the stressed/tonic and unstressed/atonic vowels?
That feature exist in almost all languages and i believe is a feature of speaking with more than monosyllables (in the wikipedia says french doesn't have tonality and atonality, but it's not true "Quel métier étudiez-vous ?", as you can see it marks stress like spanish). Stress is not encoded on the orthography of all languages, this is for sure; and in some languages it has more importance than other languages.
@@gattetta yes I think so, but you can't say "spanish has tones like chinese" and just go with it, specially if you consider yourself a polyglot and language enthusiast.
@@alfrredd right, i also think that it has no relation with chinese tones; stress would be a more accurate way of describing this phenomenon.
One is emphasis of a syllable inside a word; the other is the use of pitch to give different meaning to the "same" syllable.
@@alfrreddYou can ve a polyglot and not understand what tones mean. I speak 3 languages and I didn't know what tones meant until a few months ago. You can speak a language fluently without having any idea of the technical terms
@@lalip0p_If you don't know what it means for sure you shouldn't talk about it in a video watched by thousands of people with such certainty, even when the other girl tries to raise doubts by saying "I didn't know Spanish had tones" Julia confirms the false statement.
Spanish does not have tones. The accent marks in Spanish just tell you which syllable in a word is the stressed syllable in cases where the word isn’t following basic stress rules
Same in portuguese
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Fun fact :
In Indonesia there are thousands of tribes and each tribe has its own language. Not a dialect.
But still the national language is bahasa Indonesia.
How do you now?
@MelzinhaebelazinhaBelbela wdym? She’s indonesian..
Julia is dominating this channel
Living in England we're not exactly incentivised to learn another language, but after watching Julia I can't stop with these videos, she's beautiful, intelligent and makes everything fun.
Entirely fluent in three languages, passable in three more, and able to read and understand and have an easy conversation in four others, I have found German the most difficult European language, but far easier than Cantonese. Learning Kiswahili was the least challenging, followed by Spanish.
For context: fluent Welsh, English, Spanish; passable Kiswahili, French, Kibukusu; others are Cantonese, Portuguese, German, & Latin.
13:10 Spanish does not have tones, it has accents, tones vary like musical notes, accents vary like emphasis on the syllable.
The same with Portugese, French and others.
Yeah. I got very confused when they said Spanish and Portuguese had tones cuz like they are not even a tonal language. I think what they were talking about is called stressed syllable.
@@sol1202 idk about spanish, but in portuguese is called silaba tonica, maybe that's why they said tone.
@@felipesouza88 yes, "sílaba tônica" is actually a stressed syllable, the word "tônica" (tonic) is misleading.
@@felipesouza88In spanish it's called sílaba tónica aswell.
In portuguese if you don't use the right intonation nobody would understand if you're asking or affirming.
As someone who speaks English and learn multiple languages this is interesting. Also inspirational to learn more languages without intimidation.
a video with Ana and Julia and Andrea please
Right! Put the cast of that cooking video + Ana
And Dafne too, from México. They are my favorites.
Yeah that would be great the perfect fan service 😂
And Giulia from italy too!
I'm happy that this went back to the way it was, with woman from around the world enjoying each other's company ❤
Love the channel! One thing that stood out to me
while watching a few kdramas a few years ago was honorifics. Now I don't know Korean, I just read the subtitles. Knowing the age of a human being that you are talking to is very important for honorifics. It's opposite here in the States. Asking a person (specifically a lady her age here in the States) is almost rude and in some cases disrespectful.
this was already after miguel left the chat
Is Miguel the portuguese guy? He's cool!
@@jedielsondafonseca6338 yeaaah. him, julia and this other girl recorded a lot of stuff this day
When I studied Spanish 🇪🇸, I found it easy to learn as a Finnish 🇫🇮 speaker. The words are pronounced as they are written in both languages, and in terms of verbs, both languages technically conjugate them in a similar-ish manner, that is, for every person & tense (unlike English). 🤓
Haha. 14:23 Spanish harder than German? That is ridiculous. There are many less sounds, there are no cases, ...
As a native English speaker, I find Spanish and German alphabets and pronunciation to be pretty simple. Each language has it's own pronunciation rules, so you have to learn them. When you've mastered that, you know exactly how a word is going to sound when you see it written down. German grammar is a lot more complicated than Spanish and English, so I struggle with that, but on pure alphabet and pronunciation, they're great to work with. Spanish does require you to be a little more specific with inflection when you speak. It could be the difference between a question and a statement: "te gusta viajar" or "¿te gusta viajar?" or different people and tenses "hablo" (I speak) or "habló" (he/she spoke).
I speak arabic (tunisian dialect) natively, and speak english and french fluently, and am semi-fluent in Farsi. Personally, I'd say arabic is easy if you're learning MSA, but if you're trying to learn any regional dialect, good luck. French is a nightmare, and it doesn't help that french people don't give constructive criticism, just criticism. Farsi's qute easy tbh, and honestly, the easiest of my non-native languages was english, but that's cos of the media and the fact my dad's american lol
For me, as a english arabic polyglot, easiest is definitely spanish by far, followed by french, then german, then welsh, then japanese/korean, then chinese. If italian was there, it would be #2 right after spanish, i find that language easy also. Portuguese would also be easier than french. Farsi would be easier than french. Urdu too. Turkish too. Probably tagalog and visaya too.
How are you all thinking that german is less difficult than those eastern asian languages? As someone NATIVE in german and japanese, i can say with certainty that high-level german is a billion times more complicated than high-level japanese. Any language can be spoken on a very basic level using the most simple grammar and vocabulary available, but that doesnt mean that you have any clue about that languages difficulty ceiling. Trust me, german is one of the few languages an outsider can learn for 10+ years still sounding like a non-native.
And speaking 30 languages on an amateurish or slightly advanced level doesnt make a polyglot in my opinion. You can call yourself a polyglot if you have completely mastered multiple languages. "Mastered" meaning that your vocabulary, grammar and pronounciation are indistinguishable from a pure native speaker: A french guy will think you were born and raised in france, a chinese guy will think you were born and raised in china, a swedish guy will think you were born and raised in sweden etc.
Thats why i always say: Real polyglots are born, not taught.
@@darkforcekillerhmm
As a Brazilian guy I feel like spanish is the easiest one,so if this Brazilian girl said otherwise I think she speaks other languages but portuguese.
Ela tava tentando ver sobre a perspectiva de um nativo da lingua inglesa, nem fez sentido esse episódio... deveriam ter colocado a moça de Whales pra falar sobre a perspectiva dela, mas acho que seria difícil encontrar algum nativo da lingua inglesa que fale várias línguas como elas falam
They wanted a perspective of a polyglot. She said in the video that for brazilians spanish would be easier but she was following a wider line of though
Why did it take so long for them to recognise the most obvious German person ever, even as an English speaker as soon as she started speaking and they were like “she’s Swedish”.
Where is andrea i miss her.
Yep
theyve merged tone and intonation. Intonation is the inflection of the entire sentence, but tone is for a word, chinese has tones, spanish has intonation
I love the Brazillian Girl! She so cute
studio is so bright that night becomes day
Only 7 languages being evaluated instead of 9 languages. However, I agreed with the result.
Indonesia should be evaluated though. 😁
The Welsh girl seems to be to nice. I want to learn Welsh.
I found that girl from Germany so inelegant. It seemed like she wasn't interested in participating in the program. 😮😮😮
I thought the same thing about french girl
maybe they need the money 😅
I was about to say the same
The German participants in the past have been rather animated. Germans are normally like Katherina. Same with the French girl.
funny thing is I'm only interested in her 😂
English grammar and word order are very similar to Chinese, which is a blessing. English has very few declensions and conjugations and no grammatical genders which makes absolutely no sense, making it the easiest Germanic language. As a native Chinese speaker who's learning German recently, it is really painful to memorize the word order, cases, conjugations, and genders.
Where's Miguel?!
Is French pronunciation that difficult ? I don't know korean, but is korean really easier than french ? And I think german is also more difficult than spanish. In fact, Spanish is the easiest one.
Yes French has a r sound and many mute sounds in words while Korean has no difficult part.
@@VeiusIuvenis German also has the [R] sound and other throat sounds like [ch] in bach or yacht. I dont know Korean so I don't know but my brain can't see it as easy because of the alphabet.
Somehow I always assumed Genesia to be really chatty and outgoing, but man, Julia really eclipsed her and dominated the entire conversation, she really made Genesia looked timid in comparison 😂
Genesia, trust me, Spanish pronunciation would be very easy for you because the spelling is very phonetic and similar to Indonesian. German is phonetic as well, but they have many sounds that just don’t exist in Indonesian. It’s not like English, French, and Portuguese which would give you headache because of their spelling inconsistency 😵💫
french spelling is consistent though. you just have to learn the rules
@@re.mi0325 LOL, no way. There are ALWAYS exceptions to the rules in French. For instance, the final 's' is usually silent, but in words like 'fils,' it's pronounced as 'fis.' Similarly, the final 't' is silent in 'debout,' but in 'but,' the 't' is pronounced, even though the spellings are similar. And that's just scratching the surface!
German is actually really easy as long as you can pronounce most of the sounds. You don’t have to get the difficult words perfectly and people will still understand you. Japanese is pretty easy but pronunciation is more important because people will look confused if you get it wrong.
Cymraeg o'r diwedd! I like the mutations, e.g. for the word 'Canada' soft mutation 'i Ganada' = 'to Canada', nasal mutation 'yng Nghanada' = 'in Canada' and aspirate mutation 'a Chanada' = 'and Canada'. CYMRU AM BYTH!
Yeah, mutations in Welsh are a nightmare for learners. Dw i'n mwynhau dysgu cymraeg yn r Duolingo ond dw i'n siarad sbaeneg a ffrangeg fel ieithoedd tramor.
@@aldozilli1293 Dechreuais i ddysgu Cymraeg ar Duolingo, ond mae'r wefan honno'n llawer llai defnyddiol heb fforymau.
As a polish person my pronunciation ranking would be:
1. Japanese 2. Ex Aequo: German Spanish, Chinese if we exclude tones (just how hard it is to make sounds) 3. Welsh because I'd need to learn 2 new sounds 4. French mainly because of vowels (I actually speak french and for polish person it's difficult to even teach brain to recognize that many vowels). Reading wise it's easy because yes, eau is one sound, but at the same time the reading rules are most of the time consistent. Also the woman in video did not mention some of the french sounds like for example é and finally 5. Korean the hardest pronunciation in my opinion of all those languages because they have some sounds that are between our polish sounds but not quite there and it's confusing, and all those weird consonants that you start saying but don't finish and stuff like that.
If we add tones then probably chinese would be hardest and spanish would go one spot higher too if they really have tones like they explained on video.
This ranking really depends on what languages you know and what your native language is. For me for example korean "eu" sound is quite easy because it's similar to polish "y" (not the same, just similar), other languages rarely have this kind of sound afaik. Icelandic language has interesting sounds because they breathe out a lot of air, it has very specific sound due to that. And in icelandic they have an interesting kinda-click sound for double L (in some cases). But they also have another sound like english "th" but in 2 versions: hard and soft, it would be probably super easy for english speakers because they already learned how to speak "th" with tongue between teeth. :D
With a lot of the welsh alphabet some of the letters are very similar and if you get it wrong it isn’t detrimental to understanding. Like the letters ,FF,TH and PH make almost the same noise and if you can’t make the LL sound you can use CH and the person can still understand.
With the possible exception of r and rh, I cannot agree. In particular, the hard ch sound is entirely different from ll. These sounds are made using different breaths, tongue position, and even clicks. The difficulty in Welsh comes from its grammar, notably mutations, the different sounds of the letter y, and the complexity of verbs in terms of tense, gender, number, and composition. Modern, informal, colloquial Welsh is far easier.
A julia já virou dona do canal kkkk tá em todo vídeo
I took Japanese in high school, and over twenty years later, that vowel order is still burned into my brain. lol
Loving these polyglot videos
Mano, a Julia é tão inteligente!
It’s nice to see a Celtic language
I'm a fan of Julia :) since I started following you! greetings from Madrid
Julia is amazing 😯❤️
Katharina is so beautiful and Jenny is so cute
Getting to be a polyglot is not hard, you just need a good tutor or a platform. Immersive translate is a great platform to improve your foreign languages
as an indonesian, i think Indonesian language or bahasa is one of the easiest language to learn, not because im indonesian but for these reasons:
1. Universal alphabeth system (A,B,C)
2. Universal writing sytem (ABC)
3. Prounounciation consistency in letters and in words
4. reguler verbs only
5. No tenses
6. Mostly voice tone doesnt change the meaning
It is easy to learn because English is exposed worldwide, but out of the nine countries, Korean is the most recent and independent in history, modern in current culture, and optimized for simple expression. And Korea, China, and Japan have cultural exchanges in the past, so it is easy to learn languages, but it is difficult for those in Europe or the U.S. to learn them at all. If you think about it the other way, I think it means the same thing as it feels easy to learn English or European language in Europe or the U.S. However, among Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, Korean is the easiest, and Chinese is the most difficult.
Native US English speaker here with decreasing proficiency in Spanish, Korean and German; and extensive travel throughout South and Southeast Asia.
English letters are all pretty much equal and easy to adapt to. Most Asian languages alphabet are hard. Have you seen Thai, Khmer, Balinese, Sinhala?
Pronunciation and hearing are ridiculously difficult for me when you toss in tones and when they intentionally make it hard like some Irish names and the French "beau" vs "beaux". Can you hear the difference?
And one thing that wasn't addressed for those trying to learn another language - tempo. Some people speak so fast that they'll naturally swallow ending. So listeners are stuck trying to figure out what they just heard. Help us out and slow down and enunciation.
I'm also a Native US English Speaker. I've found that all the Scandinavian Languages are the easiest to learn from everything I've tried. Right now I'm actively working on Swedish and German mostly. I come from South Florida so I'm surrounded by Spanish on a daily basis. I can speak some spanish but not enough to converse with people. I understand it better than I can speak and write it. But even with that in mind it's still very difficult for me.
Any of the languages that require you to read right to left like Japanese or Arabic I've put to the back burner for now. In my opinion, I've found that some of the less marketable languages are the ones I find the most interesting. Out of the more marketable languages I think French and German are my favorite.
indonesia 🇮🇩 is the most easy of word and language
I like how Julia almost slips "for" instead of "to" and vice-versa in some sentences, because in Portuguese we use "para" a lot, even when we should use "a" (with articles it becomes "à" and "ao" (yes double "a" is "à")) or "por" (with articles it becomes "pela" and "pelo" (the same as the present participial of the verb "pelar" and the noun "pelo" (hair (that is not head hair, that hair is "cabelo")))).
The girls are fun loving, knowledgeable, funny and smart within their native culture in themselves.
For example, for Asians, European, African and American Amerindigens languages are difficult, the same thing for those who speak a European language, African, Asian and American Amerindigens languages will be difficult, without further ado.
For Austronesian people, Asian, African and Native American languages are difficult.
The specific sounds of all languages are many and are the linguistic treasure of the entire earth, there will never be idiomatic sound uniformity on earth, even saying this in a deep attempt sounds like general madness.
What makes you learn the language and you love the positive side of the culture of the language and love the sound of the language, language is sound, vibration, energy, if you understand these qualities in depth you will learn the language you love no matter if it is easy or difficult when you have energy, love is intense will, every difficulty is overcome.
Julia devia ser presa, roubou toda a beleza do mundo só pra ela
Né não
Actually Spanish is easier for English speakers to learn than German
From a native English speaker from Australia, most of you kept mispronouncing Pronunciation, which drops the second ‘O’ from pronounce, leaving ‘pronUnce’. So it should be ‘PronUnciation”. Like a Nun.
Suggestions for difficult language locks in the natural languages of the video:
German:
- "Schlaftrunktrinker trinkt Trinkschlaftrunk, Trinktrunkschlaftrinker trinkt Trinktrunkschlaftrunk!".
English:
- "The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday, though the thought of the thirty-three thieves thrilling the throne throughout Thursday, thoroughly thrilled them."
Spanish:
- "El caracol color coral, corre y corre, pero nunca llega al corral. ¿Por qué? Porque el caracol color coral, no puede correr."
French:
- "Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans cesse. Sans cesse, un chasseur sachant chasser chasse."
Portuguese:
- "O papagaio papaia, papa pão, papa picolé, papa pizza, papa pão. Papagaio papaia papa pão, papa picolé, papa pizza, papa pão."
Hard tongues twisters for joy and for fun on theses idioms.
Thank you 💗💗💗💗
Do the same with grammar, resource availible for learning the language, the amount of entertainment availible for learning the language (eg. movies, youtube videos, anime, songs)
Miss the pt guy.
See, Irish even has it’s own distinct and unique language. There’s too many people who think that Ireland is part of the UK. Yes, geographically Northern Ireland is connected to the country of Ireland, but politically it is part of the UK and has the same status as Wales England Scotland. _But_ the REST of Ireland is its own distinct UN recognized country, COMPLETELY separate from the UK, it has nothing to do with the Royal Family - in fact it’s a Republic with a prime minister.
Wow the Spanish girl is gorgeous
She really is fineeeee 😮😮😅
The Welsh speaker was pronouncing the letters are pronounced, not the name of the letter. So, c is pronounced always as k in Welsh, the name of the letter is 'ec', likewise r is trilled like in Spanish and the name for the letter is er (like in Spanish). Kids in Wales, for some reason are never taught to say the names of the letters, only as they're pronounced. But as Welsh is phonetic it's not such a big thing. The letters are always pronounced as pronounced except 'y' which is usually a schwa but can also be like a soft i. 🏴 Hyfryd gweld y Gymraeg yn y fideo yma. Da iawn.
I really love julia ❤
Japanese writing system is much harder than Chinese. Even though Chinese may have more somehow.. when you are in the thousands of characters for writing, that is difficult for every human including natives. What other languages are in the thousands of characters besides Chinese character using languages? So ok 50,000 thousand characters in Chinese. Each character has 1 sound. Japanese has 2136 which is the level equivalent to a high graduate, but most people go to college, and gain 1, 2, 3, 4000 more kanji depending on their career. Then you have kanji that are not in the common 2136 but they show up in peoples names, which are important to be able to read. In japanese kanji, there can be multiple ways to pronouncing 1 character, and you have to be able to know how its read in a given word. take for example 下 for example which has quite a few. in chinese is just read as "xia". In Japanese however, it can be "shita" on its own. In 下げる is "SA"geru, in 下り is ”KUDA"ri, in 下ろす is "O"rosu, in 下北沢 is "SHIMO"kitazawa, in 下手 is "HE"ta, in 上下 is jou"GE" , in 下級 is "KA"kyuu. Most kanjis have about 2 or 3 readings but you come across ones like this with many. It makes Chinese look more sensible. Also Japanese grammar is a pain, on top of it being an SOV language where english and chinese are SVO languages. Pronunciation may seem the easiest in Japanese but it is highly overlooked because of its simplicity. Because it has less sounds than english and most other languages, it is very easy as a native english speaker miss the actual correct pronunciation. People in Japan may understand most of what you say too but that dont mean your Japanese is good. having an foreign accent means that you need more work on your pronunciation. I can easily tell when someone is a foreigner even if they are Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese. etc. Also as english speakers pronounce sounds like SH, and F, way to harshly. F is more like an H. Also if Japanese pronounciation is so easy, why do mostly all english speakers pronounce nearly every famous Japanese thing wrong. Examples of incorrectly said words, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Mazda, Ibanez, just to name a few. SO sure its easy in that i think anyone CAN pronounce everything correctly if they are paying attention and actually care to do it. There is also pitch accent. where you put the emphasis on a word can change its meaning.
日本語ネイティブはいわば母音に寛容なんですよね。だから｢hat｣｢hut｣｢hot｣を言い分けられないし、全部同じ母音に聞こえる。
故に外国人が発する発音が30%くらいしか合ってなくてもなんとなく言いたいことは伝わるから、外国人目線だと｢なんだ日本語の発音簡単じゃん！｣ってなるんですよね〜多分
下北泽（悲）
Tonal language will always hard for people who come a non tonal background. There is also a pattern for Chinese characters. Most Chinese characters are made up of a radical (hint to the meaning) and a phonetic component (hint to how it’s pronounced).
We want Miguel
Ok
even korean alphabet different from latin alphabet, but still it is so easy. only 5 minutes and you know how to read in korean alphabet.
a alegria da alemã é contagiante
Low Q LOL
I want to be able to master 10 languages during my lifetime on this earth. 😄
the spanish girl is so attractive oh my god
Spanish doesn't have any tones, it is just the tonic syllable that is marked.
People who's native language is not English, can not truly share an accurate perspective on which languages would be hardest for an English speaker to learn. I speak four languages at a conversational level and couldn't make such assessments outside my native tongue of English.
Surely, difficulty is based on the nationality of the speaker. For a Brazilian, any romance language would be easier.
as a girl who studies/studed these languages(but welsh) I don't totally agree lol
first thing first you DON'T have to memorize 50k character in Chinese like no one ever did that don't exaggerate girl, I've been learning Chinese for 2 years and a half now and made sooo many Chinese friends NONE of them had ever to memorize this much lol, you only need few thousands to make billions of words
for the easiest Alphabet i think french goes before Spanish coz French at first sight would give you an easy look changing only few letters in the alphabet and Spanish changed more
for the pronunciation i think French goes before German, German pronunciation is lowkey crazy most of the time
*about the intonation all languages have it, you won't sound like a native if you fucked it up
haha I kind of have to agree with you on that. 😂 It's true that pronunciation can be quite complicated for non-native speakers. wait for the Grammatics which can change with only one word often completley. But that's simply because German can't actually be compared with other languages. for example the romanic languages have many similarities with each other but German is a language that cannot really be compared with others - Dutch doesn't count in our eyes and neither does English - well, maybe 5-10%.
I think, it's the same with chinese, it can't compared with others.
But wtf i not can remember even one hundred characters. 😂 that's why i have respect to everyone who can speak Chinese.
@@DerTypAusDemREICH lol true
I got confused, shocked, lost my mind when i first knew that English and dutch are on the same language family as Germany, like bffr bro how is that lmao
Asian languages are actually hard most of the time, but fun, the harder the more fun! ofc Germany too
@@boo9236 Well, many people don't know that the English have German ancestors as well as ancestors from the north - this is how the English language gradually emerged. The Anglo-Saxons who came there are a fusion of the Saxons and the Angles who were very early German tribes and then at some point came to Great Britain and mixed with other people. Many would say it's not true, but if you have any interest in history then you'll quickly find out that it's true.
The Chinese, on the other hand, are, for me personally, the Giga-Chad when it comes to their language. There were once Chinese people who claimed that German was goddamn difficult - meme: Chinese has what feels like over 100,000 characters if you take all of it with them, regardless of dialect and time and all that. Every German was looking to this chinese with a face what said: WTF 🤨 from all people the Chinese are the one which say that German is difficult 😂🤣
@@DerTypAusDemREICH you know a lot! that's impressive! thank you for such informations
lol yeep the difficulty of every language depends on your mother tongue more, so Chinese people would definitely find crazy difficulties in other languages like deutsch😂
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yes, I can imagine that but it's just like a joke if you thinking about this. 🤣
By the way, many Germans say that Dutch sounds and is written as if the German language had been beaten twice and then made drunk - the people in Netherlands know this but it's more a kind of humor. 😂 I am convinced that the Dutch have their own judgments about us.
If Andrea isn't in these clips, I won't watch it. please bring Andrea back!
Me personally, as an English speaker, Tagalog has been the easiest language for me to learn, I am Flilipino mixed myself so I have been exposed to the culture and language through my family so that may have made it easier but I know most of my life I had also been exposed to a lot of Spanish language and culture and I tried learning Spanish and I know enough Spanish to learn Tagalog bc some words are very similar but when it comes to just Spanish..my brain gets fried sometimes but not near as hard as Mandrin…also isn’t the most difficult thing ever but most definitely challenging 😅
I'm native Chinese speaker, normally you would only need around 4000 characters to fulfill daily use, that Chinese lady clearly didn't do her homework and didn't treat this program seriously...
The most difficult languages in the world; I read in a book that it was in Russian, Latin and Turkish.
2:30 realizing the melody of the Japanese alphabet is probably learned this way in elementary school. Polyphia used that exact same phrasing in one of their songs
Julia is so smart but also become very dominating in this video. Unlike in other videos, she almost taking over the entire video. No hate, just an observation.
I speak German and some Chinese. Despite it's challenges, Chinese is my favorite language.
Justice for Miguel!!!
and Elysa
Why? He is not out.
It's girls day bro
Actually all girls here are polyglots. They all speak more than one language
@-ariYou are right
El brillo de la alemana lastimo mis ojos.
6:27 - She wouldn't correct you if you had remember all the letter of your alphabet.
these are not part of the standard alphabet. They are just considered variants.
As a Chinese and seeing all the rankings saying it’s Chinese it’s so funny lol 😅
Even if you're learning a language with the same letters in the alphabet, the sounds of the letters wont be the same, so its kind like learning a new alphabet. So I do think Korean Alphabet is waaaay easier to learn, even if Im learning an alphabet from a language whi the same letters as mine
most of the time there are just a few letters that are different. also its the same letters in many languages like r, c, ch and vowels. plus, theyre often pronounced similar. letters like m, n, k, t, p are pronounced the same in most languages. i'd say once you understand the rules its way easier to read fast in a language whose alphabeth you've already known
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Daffodils, rainbow, soft clouds within reach, sweet enchiladas with a little bit sour avocado and jumping puppies. Miss Andrea where are you. mi'lady. I/we are on this, in the next life or the next.
I love how native speakers forget some 'characters' or letters even the french girl forgot at least one... :)
Everybody:
Me: "as soon she starts the alphabet in Japonese" starts Singing Polyphia - ABC feat. Sophia Black lol
Guys there are no tones in Latin and German languages 😢. Comparing Spanish to Chinese is like comparing a single bell to a guitar.
Mandarin's tone is not complicated,Cantoness's tone is very complicated
Welsh not being in the bottom 2 for pronunciation is mad